Quotes About Truth

Looking for quotes about truth then start here. Inspirational truth sayings will give you an opportunity to contemplate some of life's interesting issues amidst what others say. Truth is not always easily interpreted nor is it always obvious. Some of the biggest so called "truths" may in fact be no more than a myth or story retold by those who choose to believe rather than dig into it to question its validity. The question often occurs about what has been told by people of power whether their statements are truth or are a convenient self-serving interpretation. People are not as naïve as they once were and so it is that what is spoken as truth is often held up to the light of scrutiny. Some of these included quotes about truth are therefore from those who question and not from those who simply believe everything they hear.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Brad Holland

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Thoreau

To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.
Gary Amirault

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.
Chuck Colson

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Dresden James

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach

If a lie is told by someone of importance, and re-told by those who have been told, it carries the weight of the one of the greatest power and assumes its own weight thereafter.
Byron Pulsifer

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
J. L. Borges

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark but even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard for the milkman to come up the yard.
Christopher Morley

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell

Truth is something that is kindled from childhood attached with the development of core ethics.
Byron Pulsifer

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
Goethe

Truth isn't all about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted.
Byron Pulsifer

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galileio

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Yiddish Phrase

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